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Mind The Gap

from Dark Skies by Mattie Konig

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She’s 150 and still going strong decked out in so many styles
From the space age halls at Westminster to the Maida Vaile staircase tiles
Her dads answered to Pick Pearson and Yerkes with her uncles Johnston and Beck
And she may be fashionably late but when she arrives she’s a stunner by heck

Her hair’s a sprawling four-rail network
Her smile’s an oxblood Leslie Green arch
Her teeth are porcelain conductors
Her fire fuels the city’s beating heart

London Underground
Why do you fascinate me so
London Underground
Why do you titilate me so

Can she make it to two hundred years
Or three or four or even more
Will our grandchildren commute in style
Or feel the brunt of every flaw

How will she finally meet her end
Through nuclear war or payday loan
And when mankind’s long dominion’s done
Will vermin call her tunnels home

But while you’re here I’ll pay my respects
And while I’m there I’ll ride you all day
The pride roundels, the Transport Museum
This laboured love from Epping to Hayes

I’ll mourn the parts I won’t see again
Like C Stock seats and chocolate machines
I’ll revel in how cliched this is
For someone on the spectrum to find solace in the London Underground
Why do you fascinate me so
London Underground
Why do you titilate me so
London Underground

“I trust you’ll pardon my correction
That stuff’s there for your protection
Here’s another bright suggestion
Standing right prevents congestion”

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from Dark Skies, released October 30, 2019

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Eclectic progressive music from the weirdest trans woman in all the West Country. How's it going?

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